In the media
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The effect of trial by media 11 July 2024
The trial of Dutch rapper Ali B is receiving massive media attention. Party due to himself, the trial can be followed by the public. How will this aff...
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FvD politican Gideon van Meijeren in court for inciting violence 04 June 2024
The Netherlands Public Prosecution Service has demanded that Gideon van Meijeren, Dutch Member of Parliament in the Forum for Democracy (FvD) party, b...
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Discrimination and inequality in the criminal justice system are still major issues 10 April 2024
‘Criminal law is still an inequality machine’, argues Folkert Jensma in his fortnightly column for Dutch newspaper NRC. After attending the conference...
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Quincy Promes arrested in Dubai: will he be extradited to the Netherlands? 20 March 2024
Quincy Promes has been arrested in Dubai at the request of the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service. The Dutch judicial authorities now want Dubai t...
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Is threatening politicians a danger to democracy? 30 May 2023
After the episode of TV programme 'Collegetour' featuring Dutch Minister of Finance Sigrid Kaag, more attention is (rightly) being paid to threats mad...
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Dealing with convicted Dutch nationals abroad 09 February 2023
The European Union has claimed, following its own investigation, that the Dutch government is falling short in how it deals with Dutch nationals convi...
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Van der Leun and Rodrigues on the criminalisation of migrant aid 18 January 2023
Aid workers being summoned to appear before a court in Greece and more stringent rules for rescue boats in Italy. Is providing aid to asylum seekers b...
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How do you keep ex-offenders on the straight and narrow? 27 October 2022
Since reintegration officer Bart Reedijk started work in Dordrecht three years ago, ex-convicts in that municipality have reoffended a lot less often....
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Esther van Ginneken in NRC: 'Stop further austerity at prisons' 20 September 2022
Cuts in the prison system threaten to be at the expense of security, including that of society, writes university lecturer Esther van Ginneken in an o...
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Miranda Boone in NRC: 'Leave for prisoners is essential' 22 August 2022
Tightened rules are preventing prisoners from taking leave, even though this would help with their reintegration.
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Joni Reef: 'We’re prisoners of our own perspective' 15 August 2022
One perspective, one cell, one outlook on life: what are we all prisoners of? That’s the question Vrij Nederland put to various experts, including Jon...
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Pauline Schuyt: 'Life imprisonment demand ineffective if goal is deterrence' 15 July 2022
The number of life sentences in the Netherlands is rising sharply. This is a clear response to the serious drugs violence and brutal attacks on our ru...
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Maria Berghuis in EditieNL about PhD thesis: 'Prison visits are form of social control' 21 June 2022
Prisoners who have little or no contact with the outside world are more prone to reoffend. What makes visits so important?
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Leiden Law Cast: The prison population NL vs. BE with Miranda Boone 02 June 2022
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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Miranda Boone on problems with virtual court hearings during coronavirus crisis 21 February 2022
The coronavirus crisis had a major impact on the judicial system in the Netherlands: courts closed at the start of the pandemic and instead held virtu...